UK will now reportedly use Apple and Google's platform for its coronavirus tracing app
, the news is expected to be confirmed by the U.K. government later on Thursday. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care wasn't immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC.
Contact-tracing apps log when two people have been in close proximity to one another for an extended period of time. If someone contracts the virus then an alert will be sent to people they've been in close proximity to. Germany, Italy and Denmark have also switched from a so-called "centralized" approach that sees data processed on a state-controlled server to Apple and Google's "dencentralized" approach, where data is processed on the handset itself, thereby limiting privacy intrusions.
There was one caveat: They said they would only allow these background handshakes to occur on "decentralized" apps.The U.K. started piloting a centralized contact-tracing app on the Isle of Wight, home to 142,000 of the U.K.'s 66 million population, on May 7.
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